Vehicle fire off I-35 was intentionally set

Officials believe a truck found burning early today just off Interstate 35 in New Braunfels was intentionally torched, KGNB Radio is reporting.

Firefighters were called shortly after 3 a.m. to the site of a truck fire near the city’s Texas Department of Public Safety Office, the New Braunfels station says. They found a 1993 GMC pickup fully engulfed in flames.

The truck had been stolen last Monday 2 in the Kirby area, KGNB reports. Its license plates had been replaced with a set stolen in San Antonio.

Authorites are seeking a juvenile believed to have initially taken the truck, the station says. New Braunfels Fire Marshal Patrick O’Connell told the station the boy isn’t considered a suspect in the fire.